Jim Brown reviewed Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
Mundanity of grueling Big Box store work
I appreciated that this book went into the weeds of what it looks like to work at a place like Walmart (the store is called Town Square in the book). The mundane details of the labor, the backstories of the workers, the workplace politics that control their lives.
I didn't love the story or the writing, but I am interested in what Waldman did to research this book, which took seriously the day-to-day lives of working people.